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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) July 1943

1943

The Persian version of the opening chapter of the Genesis made by Abhay Chand is incorporated in the Dabistan under the title " Book of Adam." The influence of love cannot but be over-estimated. [...] The truth of the fact however is that the increased demand on the part of the Government-has no doubt raised the prices of the commodities owing to the limitation if their supply but at the same time the huge expansion of currency is pusliing the prices constantly to a higher and still higher limit. [...] So far it has not been used at least by the private consumer to the extent which its volume seems to suggest." The author takes the example of the velocity of bank deposits and since it has greatly gone down inspite of the increase of deposits in the banks he readily concludes that the velocity of currency must have also gone down. [...] The late 'Sir James Taylor _sirniiarly confused the issuer when in his speech at the last Shareholders' meeting of the Reserve Bank he denied the very fact of inflation and considered the high prices as an " unavoidable result of the large purchases of goods and services " by the Government. [...] Thig is -one of the reasons though a minor one - for the depression..which hangs -about the.: jute market even -when the demand is high and the supply 'is not over Much As -a result of the existence of a..chain of middle men the discrepancy between the price at which -the growers have to sell and the price at' which the mills or the shippers have to Purchase becomes considerable.
history
Pages
74
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
Two Leaders of Asia
1-4 K.M. Panikkar view
Sarmad and His Quatrains
5-31 S.K. Rahman view
Marketing of Jute
32-41 Birendra Roy Chowdhury view
The Present War and the Problem of Cotton Piece Goods in India
42-47 Sukumar Ray, Choudhury view
An Assamese Versjon of Narayaneva’s Padmapuran
48-50 Bibincui Barua view
Miscellany
51-52 Benoy Sarkar view
Round the World
53-62 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
63-65 unknown view
Ourseives
66-68 unknown view

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